The meeting came after Labour moved to ensure it will have the option of adding tough statute-backed reform into the Crime and Courts Bill next week.
But in 1996, Congress enacted tough statutes intended to curtail health care fraud.
As well as the obstacle to any potentially successful legal action posed by the virus's high mortality rate, Texas governor Rick Perry in 2003 signed into law one of the nation's toughest statutes to limit liability for medical malpractice.
Under a new bribery act passed by Parliament in 2010, described by British legal experts as one of the toughest statutes of its kind anywhere, the maximum penalty for bribing a public official or receiving a bribe is 10 years in prison and an unlimited fine, but the statute also provides for much lesser penalties.
Mr. Kuh was among the first prosecutors to support a softening of the state's tough antidrug statutes promoted by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, and he championed laws to end discrimination against gay men and lesbians in housing and employment.
Some are as tough as statutes on assault or manslaughter, whose language and penalties they resemble.
Several mortgage companies mentioned that tough "predatory lending" statutes in New Jersey make it more difficult to operate in the state's subprime market.
The majority of states do not have similarly tough anti-discrimination statutes, according to the ACLU.
Investigators are now trying to trace the money behind Mr. bin Laden's network, Al Qaeda, and Mr. Kerry and other lawmakers have called for tough new money laundering statutes.
He outlined independent external regulation, underpinned by statute, and a tougher line on his own errant MPs than the Tory leader has yet imposed on his.
Among its recommendations, the report called for a tough new press regulator backed by statute.
